Supply Chain Manager

About Us:
At FreeWire, we fundamentally change the way businesses and utilities electrify. We build battery-based energy storage systems that provide clean and quiet power anywhere it’s needed, reducing the cost and accelerating deployment of electric vehicle charging infrastructure. FreeWire’s solutions are evolving from providing ultrafast EV charging services to a full suite of energy services to accelerate sustainable electrification and provide resiliency to customers and a distributed power source to utilities. FreeWire has secured major strategic investors from Fortune 100 companies and serves leading corporate, utility, and retail customers. The feedback on the Boost Charger, FreeWire’s DC fast charger, has been overwhelmingly positive as we electrify locations that would have been too expensive to power on using conventional charging solutions. Utilities are releasing RFPs with requests for battery backed solutions, their regulatory teams are including our technology as eligible for incentives, and they are seeking cost effective solutions as they electrify their fleets and provide utility owned charging solutions for the public.

**Supply Chain Manager - Contract Manufacturer**
**Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, MX**

Freewire Technology **Supply Chain Manager
- Contract Manufacturer** is a key member of the Supply Chain team ensuring the continuity of supply at Contact manufacturer site. It is an Engineer-to-Order fast paced, complex environment. The Supply Chain Manager is the primary interface between tactical procurement, logistics, and production. This is a hands-on position that requires significant presence on the shop floor, as well as interaction with multiple stakeholders including manufacturing managers, project managers, production controllers, buyer/planners and strategic sourcing team members. Data analysis, problem-solving and attention to detail are critical skills for this role.
**Responsibilities**
- Ensure on-time material availability for production
- Provide daily updates to Production Management to ensure visibility of current & future material issues
- Analyze system need dates, supplier commitments and current production status to identify critical material issues
- Consistently work on demand & supply to proactively identify gaps and work with planner buyers and strategic procurement to eliminate the gaps
- Escalate critical material shortages immediately upon identification and own the efforts to resolve and continue to escalate
- Work proactively with Project Managers & Engineering to identify unreleased parts and evaluate the impact to production; escalating to management as needed
- Attend Engineering Procurement meetings
- Implement solutions to overcome current & future material shortages; coordinate and optimize delivery schedules with critical suppliers
- Work with Production Managers to understand critical production schedules
- Manage and support the activities of assigned Production Controllers
- Support planning & coordination of new projects, new components and engineering changes and assess the impact to Production Schedules
- Work with Engineering & Program Management to develop roadmaps for the phase-out of obsolete parts and phase-in of new product materials
- Coordinate with Quality Management, MRB & Production to avoid impact due to non-conforming materials
- Escalate and work with Project Management team of material impact on project timeline
- Track KPI’s and generate reports, charts & presentations for OM performance
- Foster strong partnerships and collaborate with all stakeholders, concentrating on improvements and constructive feedback
**Required Knowledge / Skills, Education, and Experience**
- Bachelor’s degree in related discipline or equivalent experience; Master’s in supply chain will be preferred
- Excellent working knowledge or MRP/ERP systems (Oracle NetSuite is preferred).
- Significant work experience in procurement or supply chain
- Experience in an engineer-to-order, project environment
- Able to read drawings and understand BOM structures.
- Experience in demand planning
- Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.
- Proven experience in data mining, analysis, and reporting.
- Strong work ethic, attention to detail, and commitment to high quality work.
- Driving Kaizens and lean methodology implementations to improve CM productivity to reduce/contain the cost